Garric Simonsen's artwork draws from a large collection of family history. Simonsen works with traditional materials and inter-disciplinary approaches, including dry-etching, encaustic and collage, the evolution of what could be classified as his antipainter persona. Garric’s artistic research pushes the meaning of an evolving self-perception, redefining self as nature does. Defined through a language of signs and pictures, his work requires little intellectual description or hypothetical analysis. His roots in Pacific Northwest history pull away from abstraction and focus on artifact and the quality of object and picture.